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As the Cookie Crumbles by Amanda M. Lee
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChristmas is right around the corner, and Stormy Morgan is ready to celebrate for the first time in years. She’s been dreaming of one thing…Shadow Hills’ infamous Christmas festival.There’s just one little problem.When helping her new friend Easton pick out clothes in the thrift store, Stormy discovers the owner is missing. What’s worse, it looks as if there was a struggle in the back room... -
A Haunting Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAva Harper may be a raiser of the dead and a not-so-famous author, but she isn’t vampire hunter. Not even close.With the decision made to stay in Shipton Harbor, she returns to the home she shared with her deceased husband in Pennsylvania to put it on the market. But saying goodbye to the memories of the home they raised their son in is a lot harder than it had sounded in her head... -
The Vampire's Former Flame by Kristen Painter
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Nocturne Falls, the town where Halloween is celebrated 365 days a year. The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better. Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs, fur, and all.Ephelia Moreau doesn’t know she’s in danger... -
Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe
I’m ready for the chaos of Texas to be a speck in my rearview mirror. So when the museum director throws me a bone by arranging for us to visit a fossil dig in Utah, I jump at the opportunity.I need a breather from all the craziness that has become my life since waking multiple dino shifters. A dig in Utah sounds like exactly what I need, the perfect getaway... -
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Murder by the Cup by Abigail Lynn Thornton
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsShe's always been her family's dirty little secret,but now she's finally free...Wynona Le Doux would never have chosen to be born into the most powerful, ruling witch family in all of Hex Haven. And she certainly wouldn't have chosen to be cursed at birth and grow up without powers. Nor would she have ever wanted to add 'amateur sleuth' to her resume.It seemed fate left her no choice... -
All The Write Moves by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsGoing to Hell has never been on my bucket list… until now.The fact that I can speak that sentence without laughing or losing my mind is absurd. However, my life has veered into a very tricky tale that rivals any of my books.The villain has been banished. I’ve written her right into an infernal doom... -
Not Her Alpha by Annie Nicholas
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsChris Jenkins, alpha werewolf, wants the woman who destroyed his life dead. Then he finds her imprisoned and beaten by her own family. So, he rescues her instead. Too make things worse, her soul is bound to a grimoire of black magic and he volunteers his pack to protect the book from falling into the wrong hands. Now, Jade has to live with him. It’s the only way to keep his city safe. Really... -
Carnal Creek Shifters Box Set by Haley Weir
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBorn into a cursed bloodline of Viking Lords.. Heirs to the Silverblood Pack have lived a life most would envy. Pleasure. Recklessness. Now, a prophecy of destruction threatens their world. The bloodline must be preserved at ALL costs. The mates to the Silverblood Pack have already been chosen. The pack must preserve themselves, their mates, and their world. It's an impossible task... -
The Howl Nine Yards by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAdeline, the human mother of two adopted shifter girls, is on the run after trying to take down a powerful, embezzling shifter. Her family is threatened, and only Gerri Wilder has the contacts to help her. She just hoped for some help, not for Gerri to find her a hunky shifter to make her think of romance.Griffin gave up his birthright as alpha...Categorized as:
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Howl of the Alpha by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter years of hard work, Victoria Branson’s bar is one of the hippest places to be in the city. All that’s missing is someone to share her life with. Too bad she has zero skills when it comes to love and dating. Until a mysterious, handsome stranger enters her bar and turns her life upside down. Victoria has never had a one-night stand before, but she might make an exception for Axton... -
Striping Hot by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA reporter and a tiger shifter are about to learn that you never know what will happen at one of Gerri Wilder’s famous bachelor auctions!Hard-nosed and clever reporter, Gianna Lee, has dreamed of finding the scoop of a lifetime. She just never knew that she’d stumble across it at the same time she catches the eye of a hunky billionaire tiger shifter... -
Sweatpants and Spells by Keira Blackwood
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI knew hot flashes were supposed to be hot, but I didn’t expect flames.One day I’m in anger management, normalizing the cordial hate between me and my husband. The next, we’re divorced and he has taken both our house and the business we built together. I’m forty years old and living above our empty restaurant, plotting my next move... -
Serious Leigh by Melanie James
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOy vey! Shit just got serious in Chicago. The Witches Union has discovered that Leigh Epstein has been dabbling in the dark arts, and now they want to become creative editors for Leigh’s paranormal romance, “Four-Bitten Fangtasy”, a book about a shape shifting-werewolf-vampire hybrid named Vlad... -
One Bite by Jennifer Blackstream
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIrina is determined to continue her fight for freedom. Freedom for her from her evil sorceress stepmother, and freedom for every faction in the kingdom of Dacia. Unfortunately, her stepmother isn’t about to let that happen and she’s got a poisoned apple and a glass coffin with Irina’s name on them… Kirill is a vampire prince determined to be a vampire king...Categorized as:
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Pushing Up Posies by Eve Langlais
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNetflix and Chill takes on a whole new meaning when Posie starts dating the Reaper.Poor Brody. As reaper leader for the Canadian guild, he and his crew don’t get as much work as other countries until the Dark Lord gives them a new mandate: Establish a dating service on Earth that will facilitate the meeting between citizens of Hell and humans with the end goal being babies... -
First Bite by Mac Flynn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrixie Lyal stumbles upon the scoop of a lifetime when her move to a new town takes a detour into the paranormal world of Apple Hollow. She winds up at the local diner where she meets a handsome local by the name of Orion. Cupid stings her heart but not the headlines as strange happenings stir her curiosity... -
Men Are Frogs by Saranna DeWylde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSOMETIMES YOU'RE THE CURSE . . .Disgraced wedding planner Zuri Davis is so relieved to be offered a job with Fairy Godmothers, Inc., she's willing to trade the high-rise excitement of Chicago for the small-town charm of Ever After. Falling for one of her grooms, even unintentionally, was enough to destroy her career--and also to prove that all men are indeed frogs...Categorized as:
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Devil's Curse by S.A. Bayne, Stephanie Rowe
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this delightful paranormal romance romp by New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Rowe writing as SA Bayne, the fate of the world is at risk when Satan's top soul-snatcher falls for the conflicted assassin sent to kill her boss.Becca is so done being Satan's favorite minion. If she doesn't escape soon, she'll be trapped forever... -
Something to Howl About by Christine Warren
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWELCOME TO ALPHAVILLE, where the she-wolves and alpha-males play. . .for keeps, in a brand-new paranormal romance series from New York Times bestselling author Christine Warren. Dr. Annie Cryer has been called many things: Genius. Child prodigy. Scientific wonder. Wolf Shifter...Categorized as:
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Legal Wolf's Mate by Eve Langlais
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn Eve Langlais's Legal Wolf’s Mate—previously published in the anthology Growl— taking on a pro bono murder case isn't a problem for a lawyer who enjoys a challenge. Discovering his new client is his mate? A tad more complicated. Gavin has no intention of settling down, especially not with a woman accused of murder... -
30 Day Mate by Kristen Strassel
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWill my past steal Saint’s future?After a misunderstanding costs me a dream contract for a cooking show on a major network, I’ll do whatever it takes to repair my reputation.Even apply to be one of The Real Werewives of Colorado.The dating reality show is my last chance to prove I’m for real, even if it means I’ll belong to a wolf shifter forever... -
Big Little Spells by Hazel Beck
Is her magic a threat to witchkind…or is she simply powerful enough to save the world?Rebekah Wilde was eighteen when she left St. Cyprian, officially stripped of her magic and banished from her home. Ten years later, she’s forced to return to face the Joywood Coven, who preside over not just her hometown but the whole magical world... -
Convincing Conrad by Casey Drake
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsConrad Stokes knows he’s in trouble when he uncovers an embezzlement scheme and watches as his boss’s office is ransacked… by glowing-eyed shadows. Now his boss is dead, and Conrad is understandably freaked out and doesn’t want to go home alone. Enter Ryder, the gorgeous security specialist sent by his sister... -
Bewitching You by Viola Estrella
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen steamy romance meets magic and mayhem... A love spell gone wrong. An interfering ghost. A nosy mind-reading grandmother. And a psychic man-hating mother. To say Sofia Good's life is a mess might be the understatement of the century. But when her visions forecast a love worth fighting for, she's willing to do just about anything to meet the man of her dreams... -
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Alejandro's Sorceress by Alyssa Day
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsFirst in a funny, sexy new paranormal romance series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Day. He's a warrior, hardened by years of protecting his town from vampire attack. She's a garden witch who sees the world in shades of sunshine and delight. Opposites don't only attract, they go supernova in this sizzling tale of magic and mayhem... -
It Happened One Midnight by Saranna DeWylde
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsFans of The Ex Hex and Payback’s a Witch won’t want to miss this delightful and entertaining novel featuring three meddlesome fairy godmothers on a mission to restore their hometown’s deep well of enchantment by conjuring true love…even in the most reluctant couples... -
Dare to Bleed by Mary Whitten
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmily is a normal girl with a nosey mother, a deadbeat father she has never met, and a vulgar outrageous best friend. Girls start dying around her apartment, and her love life is being turned upside down. On top of everything, two mysterious men have come into her life and informed her that she is the target of the killer... -
The Seductive Charm of a Sexy Shifter by J. Kenner, Julie Kenner
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Seductive Charm of a Sexy Shifter Maggie is one-hundred percent, head-over-heels in love with Nick, a determined lawyer with his feet firmly on the ground. But Nick is also kind and smart and sexy, and Maggie is certain he’s the man for her. There’s just one teensy little problem: Maggie is Nick’s pet cat... -
The Love Goddess' Cooking School by Melissa Senate
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsCamilla’s Cucinotta: Italian Cooking Classes. Fresh take-home pastas & sauces daily Benvenuti! (Welcome!) Holly Maguire’s grandmother Camilla was the Love Goddess of Blue Crab Island, Maine—a Milanese fortune-teller who could predict the right man for you, and whose Italian cooking was rumored to save marriages... -
Accidental Leigh by Melanie James
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow does a girl become a witch? By accident, of course! Leigh Epstein is a grief stricken and lonely elementary school teacher that is devastated by the brutal and unexpected death of her true love at the hands of a careless writer. She overcomes her grief by taking matters in her own hands and takes up a little romance writing to resurrect her vampire-werewolf book-boyfriend... -
Hubble Bubble by Jane Lovering
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA spellbinding romantic comedy of love and witchery in Yorkshire by the award-winning author of Living in the Past. Holly Grey’s career as a location scout keeps her too busy for long-term romance. Just as well. Scouting out a decent man for more than a fling isn’t worth the trouble... -
A Hint of Magic by Claire Chilton
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDora Carridine is fed up with her life as a preacher’s daughter and sets out to explore the darker side of life instead. If she can find some magic in the world, then maybe she will find a place she belongs. When she comes across a coven of witches, she takes on their trials to try and join them... -
Fairy Godmothers, Inc.: A Hilarious and Charming Feel-Good Read by Saranna DeWylde
Rated: 3.39 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA PopSugar Best Romance of DecemberA Bustle Most Anticipated Read for December“The best of the fairy tale world. Readers will fall head over heels for both the quirky town and the achingly sweet second-chance romance... -
Howling for My Baby by Beverly Rae
Rated: 3.24 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsRomeo and Juliet never had to worry about being skinned alive. Sydney Skeller’s father is spitting bullets over her reluctance to join the family business as a shifter hunter. The last thing Daddy needs to know is why—she yearns for a lover who’s man enough for a relationship but animal enough to give her the wild ride of her dreams... -
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